Questions we had about Slumdog Millionaire, the rise of the rest, India and China:
1. Why was the first half of the movie subtitled with Hindi speech and the rest in English?
2. Is it morally acceptable in Indian culture to accept the amount of money given as a result of the win on the quiz show?
3. Why the Bollywood dance at the end?
4. How westernized is India today?
5. Is India's economy influenced by Western economies? (technology? employment?)
6. How do people from different castes live together? (Are the slums populated only by lower castes? How do the various different gangs interact?)
7. Do you have to sacrifice morality to rise through the caste system?
8. How has religion affected the people in India over the past twenty years? (Salim prays to his god before killing.)
9. What is the significance of the different gods? Who is the blue god?
10.How did the producers actually select the unknown actors in the slums? What happens to the actors after?
11. What is the level of contentment in the slums? How is our western conception of the slums different from the eastern?
1. Why was the first half of the movie subtitled with Hindi speech and the rest in English?
2. Is it morally acceptable in Indian culture to accept the amount of money given as a result of the win on the quiz show?
3. Why the Bollywood dance at the end?
4. How westernized is India today?
5. Is India's economy influenced by Western economies? (technology? employment?)
6. How do people from different castes live together? (Are the slums populated only by lower castes? How do the various different gangs interact?)
7. Do you have to sacrifice morality to rise through the caste system?
8. How has religion affected the people in India over the past twenty years? (Salim prays to his god before killing.)
9. What is the significance of the different gods? Who is the blue god?
10.How did the producers actually select the unknown actors in the slums? What happens to the actors after?
11. What is the level of contentment in the slums? How is our western conception of the slums different from the eastern?
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